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Luca Perrin

-Switzerland www.twitter.com/lcprn_ www.lucaperrinpicture.tumblr.com

Maya Fuhr

Luca Perrin

Maya Fuhr

-Toronto, Canada www.mayafuhr.com www.twitter.com/mayafuhr Facebook: /Maya-Fuhr-Photography Instagram: MayaFuhr

Jasper Troje-Tuck

-Falmouth, Cornwall www.jaspertrojetuck.com Facebook: /JasperTrojeTuckPhotography Flickr: /Jasper-tt

Tania Diego

Jose Flipe -Rio De janeiro, Brazil www.zefelipe.com www.twitter.com/ZeFelipe Instagram: ZeFelipe Facebook: /ZeFelipe Vimeo: /ZeFelipe

Lauren Cooper -California, USA http://www.lauren-cooper.com/ https://twitter.com/laurenxcamera Instagram: Laurenxwonderland

Nasrin Suleiman -Zanzibar Instagram: Nazyxo

Jasper Troje-Tuck

-Mexico www.taniadiego.com www.taniadiego.tumblr.com Facebook: /Tania.Diego.Studio Instagram: Tania_Diego

Issue one Welcome to Thirst Magazine, your new exciting source for all things photographic! Thirst is not only intended for the young photographer but also to inspire others to get into photography. The team behind the title have been working hard over the past few months to bring together the content for the fiirst issue. f In this issue we will introduce you to some amazing photographers who we are great fans of here at Thirst HQ. Through a series of exclusive interviews and a short showcase of each of their portfolios you will get to know them and hopefully enjoy their work just as much as we do! The Thirst team are not only in charge of putting together the following pages but are also responsible for a lot of the photographic content too, we just love getting behind that camera! Check out the editorials to see the teams work. Along with this you can also fiind a selection f of articles and features to hydrate your Thirst for photography! Enjoy!

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TEAM Ellie Minton Latifah Gordon Maria Martins Hope Grant Kiran Nazir Jenny Pickets Biher Tewelde

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Here at THIRST we are always on the lookout for young, fresh, talented photographers. In each issue we will bring you a series of interviews and portfolios of our latest favourite image makers from all over the world! Over the next few pages we will introduce you to Jasper, Maya, Luca and Tania...

What made you want to get into photography and how old were you?

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I was about 13 when I started snapping photos. I started because I was bored in high school and I wanted a way to escape my mundane small town life and the monotony of a school schedule. I’d do fake photo shoots of my girlfriends or capture moments after school or at parties with my little digi camera. If you couldn’t do photography as a career, what would you do instead? If I wasn’t a photographer i’d be an actor. What has been your most exciting shoot to date and why? I usually like to have a pretty relaxed atmosphere on set but one shoot I can remember being particularly exciting was for Little Burgandy Art & Sole. The theme of the magazine was dance so I had all the models dance as I captured their movement and cool dance moves. It was a nice way to loosen the models up and really put them in a different world because there was music blaring and electric circus type decor and clothes. It was totally high energy and entertaining- Models were coming in and out of the studio all day so I never knew what to expect from them.

Toronto based photographer, Maya Fuhr, has a very impressive portfolio. Having shot for clients such as NYLON, Topshop and Dazed Digital, Maya is certainly one to watch. Not only does she shoot fashion but also portraits, music and documentary stuff - here at THIRST we just can’t get enough of the girl!

Have you ever been on a shoot and something has gone completely wrong? Definitely. My Hasselblad is one of my favourite cameras which I can never 100% trust on shoots. For some reason things always go wrong! For a Globe & Mail newspaper editorial it broke at a very inconvenient time, so I had to borrow my assistant’s Hasselblad. The camera was his baby, and I just looked like a unprepared baby as a result.

Interview by Ellie Minton

Tell us about the creative process behind your ‘Exposure’ work. There is absolutely no creative process behind my Exposure series. Those were all happy mistakes! My camera is magic- it sometimes creates photos that I don’t premeditate. I think there’s a certain fate filled quality to those images and that’s what make them so mesmerizing.

Will we be seeing any new ‘Exposure’ work from you at all? We’ll see! What projects/shoots have you got coming up in the near future that we should look out for? A cool VICE hair editorial should be coming out anyday now. I’ll be making a second edition of my photo book that i’ll be launching at the LA Book Fair in February. I’ll hopefully be showing my work at the AGO Museum in the new year for their annual party (in the works.) Also, traveling to Hawaii with my muse/sister next month- so that should make for some beauty.

Your portraits are very natural looking, do you edit or re touch any of your portrait images? No, I don’t retouch my portraits at all. I think the allure of portraiture is seeing the subject in their most raw,natural form. Over the past few years photography has rapidly developed with the help of new technology such as the iPhone. What are your views on the development of photography? I don’t have much of a say on iPhone photography other than that it’s a convenient way to document and remember things. An eye is an eye, so a good photograph can be captured with any sort of device, iphone or real camera. It’s crazy how easy it is to document things with technology. I miss how genuine my memories were before I could capture them in half a second my phone. Describe your dream photoshoot (who, what, where etc). I’d be on the streets of Spain riding a donkey while taking photos of Lara Stone and Vincent Gallo. Something exotic.. Maybe i’m just cold right now.

My camera is magic it sometimes creates photos that i don't premeditate

Where do you aspire to be career wise in 5 years time? I aspire to be doing a photo shoot a day and selling prints through gallery shows ! I’d like to be living in New York and being able to afford it.

A photojournalism student at Falmouth university, Jasper particularly enjoys shooting events where he can capture the moment. We caught up with Jasper to find out more about his work including his ‘Chaos Theory’ series which particularly caught our eye…

Jasper troje-tuck What was it that first inspired you to get into photography? I was given a waterproof film camera for my 7th birthday, and being able to take a photo of something and have it as a lasting physical memory really appealed to me at that age. I guess it snowballed from there.

Interview by Ellie Minton

Who or what inspires your photography work the most?

produce a series of images using analogue and digital processes. There was a lot of room for interpretation in that, so I decided to produce something different to what I normally do. It’s inspired partly by nature, for example fractals and waveforms. It’s also partly inspired by the Japanese photographer Shinichi Higashi’s “Graffiti of Speed / Mirror Symmetry“ series where he digitally mirrors photos he’s taken of highways in Tokyo. What is your creative process producing a ‘Chaos Theory’ image?

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To start off with I went out into the woods with my Minolta x700 35mm camera and shot a roll of black and white film, I focused on shooting shapes like the silhouettes of twigs with the sky in the background. Thinking about negative and positive space really helped the final outcome. I processed the film myself in the darkroom at college, then scanned it in to the computer and digitised it. Once I had the jpeg files I imported them to Photoshop, and mirrored them vertically and horizontally. All I did after that was mildly adjust the exposure and contrast. Do you experiment with different types of camera such as film or digital? If yes which is your preferred method and why?

A really big inspiration of mine is a guy called James Marcus Haney with his No Camera’s Allowed movie. He snuck into a load of music festivals with his camera and eventually made a career for himself as a music photographer. His message is to just live life to its full, and not over think or worry about anything too much. I’m also really inspired by Hunter S. Thompson and his Gonzo journalism.

I do shoot a lot of film as well as digital, but it’s getting really expensive and it’s a lot of effort. It’s loads more satisfying to use than digital though, because you can’t see the photo and delete it if you don’t like it you have to think about everything a lot more. I really enjoy processing and developing film myself as well. To be honest though, it’s a lot of hassle and when I shoot music nights I take hundreds of photos so it’s not exactly practical. But I don’t think people should care too much about what’s practical or not, just do what you enjoy.

We can see that you like to photograph music events. What is it that you enjoy about this?

Tell us a bit about any of your latest projects and why you’re doing them.

I really love shooting music nights, partly because it gets me a free ticket and backstage access and all that, but mostly because I love being able to take a step back from the chaos to just watch and photograph people. My favourite part of photographing music is shooting people in the crowd when they’re not aware of my presence; you capture loads of moments that people sometimes don’t notice.

Recently I did a project called The Person at Work, where I followed three people with interesting jobs around and photographed them at work. I’ve just started studying photojournalism at Falmouth uni, and this was the first project they set us. I don’t have a lot of time for personal projects at the moment with the amount of uni work I’ve got on. I shot some photos of a guy called Rob Higgs who is an inventor and mechanic who works with scrap metal and recycled materials. I’m currently working on a project called The Establishing Image, where we define what the establishing image to a photo story is. I’m shooting a group of travellers who live in buses and caravans on

Talk to us a bit about your ‘Chaos Theory’ work. What inspired this series of images? Chaos Theory is a series I produced when I was doing my A Levels, the brief was to

Do you have any other passions other than photography? If so what? I’m really into circus skills, and flow arts like fire spinning and juggling. Recently I’ve progressed quite a lot with my fire staff, I’m enjoying learning new tricks and ways to control it. I’m also involved in the underground party scene where I live, doing free parties and all that. I’ve always loved music in a big way, particularly dub. You recently travelled to Croatia and photographed the ‘Goulash Disko’ festival, what was this experience like? Goulash Disko was easily the best week of my life. I got in touch with the organisers through Facebook and asked if I could come take photos for the price of a ticket and they said yes. It would have been an amazingly different experience doing it on my own, but a lot of my friends got involved too at the last minute and we ended up booking an apartment for 6 people right on the beach near the festival. The festival was tiny, there were about 700 people there and everyone was incredibly welcoming and happy and open. Everyone wanted to get to know each other and party together and we all kind of fell in love with the place for the week. It was on a tiny island called Split, in a little fishing village. It was all a bunch of happy hippies and travellers so the vibes were perfect. Easily the best week of my life, and I’d actually go as far to say as it was a life changing experience. If you could back to a specific time in the past to take photos, where would you go and why? I’d go back to the biblical times and shoot Jesus’ crucifixion, I think having photographic evidence of those events would prevent a lot of bloodshed and the world would be really radically different, for the better. What would your collaboration be?

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I’d really love to tour with The Arcadia Spectacular for a summer, doing festivals and shooting portraits and interviews with all the people involved. Where do you aspire to be as a photographer in 5 years time? For me, the dream is being able to make photography pay for travelling. In 5 years time I’ll have finished uni, and hopefully I’ll have saved up some money to do some long term travelling.

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What you are currently up to at the moment and what type of things interest you? I am currently in univeristy. I do a lot of things outside of it, I love creating new things and taking lots of photos. When and where were you the last time you picked up a camera and took a photo? The last time that I took a photograph was yesterday. I take photos about three times per week. It was a fashion shoot for a client.

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What was it that made you want to get into photography? Since childhood I was fascinated by photography. After I started school, I did not want to continue . photography. But then the world around me motivated me to take photos of everything I see . Now I need to create images all the time to feel good. Did anyone or anything in particular inspire you to take up photography?

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When I was younger I asked for a camera for my birthday. I started taking photos of everything and anything. And since then I never stopped. Your work was recently published online, how does it make you feel that someone has taken the time to write about your work and share it for all the world to see?

Currently studying in Switzerland, Luca captures the beauty of every day architecture that we so easily dismiss. His images have a clean, sharp feel to them with a pale colour palette consistently running through each photograph. So take a moment to check out his work and pay attention to those small details that you may usually overlook…

It’s really a good experience. It’s nice to have the recognition of what I created, and for a photographer this is very important. I was really happy to see this and I would love to have more of my work recongised.

Interview by Ellie Minton

You are currently studying at the School of Applied Arts in Vevey, Switzerland, what are your plans for when you have finished studying? After studying I would like to take a year out to do internships and earn money. After that I would like to do further studying. You show a keen interest in architectural photography, what in particular catches your attention about architecture?

I love architecture. I do a lot of architectural photography because I believe that with our eyes, we do not see or notice all of the small details in architecture. I am also interested in fashion, graphic design and contemporary art.

Do you experiment with different models and types of cameras? I generally work with the Nikon d600 and I also work with film cameras. But in my personal and professional work use digital. What I like is the ability to handle and change the image. But I also like the rendering of the film. I tend to use film for parties or holidays, for a more personal feel. THIRST magazine likes to explore modern day photography, looking at how the technology has rapidly developed over the years. What are your views on modern day technology? I think we have developed everything about digital photography and video to get an even better quality. I find that the devices are already very efficient. Technology improves and photographers will follow the new technology Where do you aspire to be within your photography career in the next 5 years? I want to develop myself in fashion photography and continue my work of architecture and design.

So how did your passion for photography begin? My first contact with photography was a course back in high school, since then I knew that I would become a photographer, for me to see through a camera just felt right, I know it maybe sounds like a cliché but I don’t know how else to put it.

Tania Diego

Did you ever want to become anything other than a photographer? I’m also a designer, mainly a graphic designer but I’m exploring other types of design like fashion and industrial, but I will always be first and foremost a photographer. Digital or film, which is your preferred method and why? Definitely film, I only choose digital when I have commercial work that requires to be fast. But in my personal work I only use almost exclusively colour film. Lately I’m returning to the darkroom to enlarge my photos and experiment with some techniques, I’m excited about that. We love your work titled ‘The Habitario’ what inspired this series of images?

Not only a photographer but also a designer, Mexico based Tania Diego isn’t short of talent. From light and pretty to dark and gothic, give Tania a brief and she could probably shoot anything. Here we catch up with her on her latest projects and what we have to look forward to in the near future…

There are two main things driving my work: On one hand to explore female identity and fashion. On the other hand the need to estrange the everyday, specifically the part of the everyday that is related to how we construct our identity and our affective response to the images. Often, I feel the impulse to photograph my surroundings to see how they look into my photos and to save for later that feeling of estrangement I had when I did the shoot. When some time has passed I look through those images to discover what was on my mind and to follow that pulsation and construct a series. After I decide I could have a series I start to do theory research to enrich my vision. In the particular case of Habitario it started with two or three houses where my friends or their parents live. Then when I realised about my fascination with how people transform the places they live in into home and transfer their identity, constructing the everyday -sometimes really different to mine- I look for more houses to show different stages and different people: Young lovers that have just moved in together, an old lady living with her young boy in a inherited home, a girl who returns home after a year just to find out that it has been occupied by other people (half brothers and sisters) and of course they have developed attachment to that place too.

Interview by Ellie Minton

The time I was shooting Habitario it was a really defining moment, it helped me to construct a vision of my entire body of work. What day to day things inspire you to pick up your camera and shoot? I’m fascinated with the strange within the everyday, lately I’m really interested in portray the sole fact of how shapes, colours and lights interact and I apply this even to my fashion shootings, I don’t see clothes or brands I see forms and colours blending with the body.

It says that you are also an ‘Object Maker’, what kind of objects do you like making and why? I’m a self-taught fashion designer, jewellery maker and recently I’m starting to explore industrial design. I worked with an art dealer who asked me to develop some objects where her local artist could put their work and sell those object in museum stores. I began designing because the way I envisioned my shoots, I needed very specific garments and accessories. Another thing that intrigues me is art book self publishing, I did a couple two years ago, the first one was an all colour digital printed regular zine. But the second one was a book with the cover embroided and I added some real elements to my photos to play with the proximity of our senses of touch and vision in our perception. They were subtle elements, things that at first you could think are in the photo and then to discover you can actually touch them. So instead of saying that I like to do all those things I just called myself an object maker. Do you ever use any of these objects as props in your shoots? In the beginning the clothes I made were just props for the photos, more like toys, they weren’t envisioned to last beyond the photo, then I started to get serious on learning more about making clothes. Almost all of my early works have clothes made by me: The jacket on “Space Girl”, the swimsuits on “15 centímetros”, half of the clothes on “Cat People” and so on. Does a lot of planning go into your shoots or do you prefer to be spontaneous? Why? Rather than planning I would like to speak about thinking, I do think a lot about the ideas I have to make photos, sometimes years can pass before I execute my idea, this is specially truth when it comes to my fashion series, sometimes a specific image forms into my head and I become obsessed with it and transform it into a photo. I do have some amount of planning and this could vary on how clear I have envisioned my concept. I used to push myself into making my idea crystal clear before I would produce it and that sometimes paralysed me into do nothing at all, then I realised I’m not that kind of person. Now I have more trust in my guts and I try not to think about the ideas I have in terms of good or bad, I just ask myself: Do I really love this particular idea? Doesn’t matter if it’s just a foggy one. What has been one of your best experiences while on a shoot? When I shoot Saskia back in 2012 in New York, it was really nurturing experience. Living in New York made me grow in all kinds of ways, you meet really interesting people, much more than in other places! I imagine that is also true in places like London, it’s a matter of statistics, because people from all over the world arrive there to produce an create. So every time I was in the streets I asked girls if they would like to collaborate with me on photos, so we can create together a fashion series.

When I met Saskia I knew I had to photograph her, I needed to do it. And I’m glad we did it, just a couple of days before I left New York. Do you think that living in Mexico has had an impact on your style of photography?

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Generally speaking, I think for Mexican artists is difficult to put into words how we have been impacted by living here. I love to live in Mexico City there’s a lot of diversity and warming people, but there’s also a lot of contrast. Mexico is a country that walks to front looking back. It’s has been difficult to find our own contemporary voice, we still tend to look outside, our parents and our parents’ parents raised us to be proud of our past but to want to run out of the country as soon as possible to be in a better place like Europe or USA (“The first world”) we have been taught to compare low and it has been hard to deprogram ourselves.

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What projects do you have planned for the near future? I have a huge interest in the discursive possibilities of fashion photography. I’m a big admirer of 90’s fashion photography and the way they depicted how our understanding of the body and identity was evolving at that time, it was a revolution! Generally speaking I feel really close to the way UK understands fashion and fashion photography. I’m exploring our way of perceiving an image and the embodied experience it comes with the tactile nature of photography.

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Also I recently launched my brand Die Katze to host all my other design projects. Each year we will choose specifics materials and we will explore their possibilities and variations throughout the entire year. The materials we’re currently working are wood, metal, vegan leather and embroidery.

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Where do you aspire to be within your photography career in 5 years time?

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I don’t know how to answer this question without soundings like a dreamer. I want to collaborate with as many people from all over the world as I can, that my work and my projects lead me to interesting places or rather nurturing situations. Besides my photographic work I want to write about contemporary photography and especially fashion photography from a unprejudiced point of view. I want to contribute to construct a formal knowledge of Mexico’s contemporary history on fashion and fashion photography.

Oblique Communication Art Direction by Hope Grant Words & Set Design by jenny pickets Photography by Biher Tiwelde The last time food photography underwent a revolution was in the 1990s when Donna Hay burst on the scene with her deeply focused and brightly lit shots. Taking that trend with the 1960s Technicolor style comes into action in the greatest way possible. Most people when confronted with the words ‘food Photography’ think commercialised advertisement. It needs beauty injected back into it; the very beauty of fruit and vegetables looking beautiful but not appetising. The hunger for communicating in an oblique fashion can be over looked. Nothing demonstrates this better than the promiscuous still life photograph.

Over the years I have learnt to expect anything in fashion. Especially being at university when all eyes are on you and the world is your fashion show. Anything goes. Dolls legs for a necklace, wigs, and six inch high stilettos! You name it. I’ve never seen anyone wear fruit, certainly not a mouldy fruit. High-end jewelry is one of the biggest statements you can make in the fashion world. It shows you have money and you don’t need dolls legs to look ‘cool’ or be in with the ‘in crowd’. Have you even tried just painting your hand for a day? Most people wear makeup or just paint their face. But what about your hands? People see them too. Time to get eccentric. So you might be thinking by now I’ve gone totally nuts in thinking you should wear mouldy fruit, yes it wont last long and it will go off but it’s a great one off statement and mixing it with the finest jewelry will make people look twice.

how how How often do you dress without a little contrast?

Are you thirsty for new looks? So how do you view still life? Is it something you’ve even thought about? Still Life, a work of art, revealing a natural or manmade object, depicts inanimate subject matter and has been around for centuries. So communicating fashion without the obvious use of models and clothing may seem a little obscure but its fresh and abstract visuals take you into a whole new world. Stripe your way into existence with the most striped lined patterns of all. Photography has begun its takeover in the art world. What’s not to like about it? Accurate images, being able to see the image exactly how it is, maybe it’s the detail. When most people think about still life they thing about the 19th century paintings of fruit. There is much more to still life than this.

The idea of juxtaposing two objects can be somewhat familiar to everyday life. For example, how often do you go out with your shirt and trousers looking the same? Answer is, you don’t! There is always some contrast in life somewhere. Some people may feel repulsed at the sight of gone off fruit! But to me it is a beauty of colours, textures and shapes that you see. Just to combine it with the utmost high-end fashion accessories of the century.

how how Think Food For The Soul Food isn’t photographed to show how tasty the dish is or how beautifully it is styled on the plate. Sometimes using food as a decoration for your own vision can be the loveliest aesthetic to your eyes. Look at food as a culture. It’s a way of living there are specific ways you might have your food or even view it. It’s like a whole new species. You as a consumer may be feeling seduced by the very look of the photography, the succulent colours and textures drawing you in, making you feel like what you see is what you need. With real taste and belief in art you are getting only the best eye candy possible. In Britain we eat to live. But in France they live to eat! Food is beauty.

Now that it’s so easy to make an ordinary sandwich look like something from heaven, the best food photographers are taking a turn for the avant-garde, producing pictures that inspire their viewers to indulge at the very sight. It’s becoming more about creating a scene that evokes feelings around food. In other words, food photography is going through the same change that art forms like paintings and music had experienced. The true artists respond by not having conventional themes that have become too much for the human eye. The explosion of food photography has fascinated chefs and it’s affecting how they cook. They’re starting to consider how a dish will look when it gets out on social media websites. By observing how their dishes are picked apart and reimagined by other creative souls, chefs can stretch their imagination about what is a successful dish.

In the words of the invisible stylist; “Pours. There are two basic kinds: the simple pour, which consists of pouring a liquid and capturing/freezing it by simply using a fast shutter speed or strobe light to stop the action. This is what most beginners, and those that rarely need a pour shot, do. And the complex ‘controlled’ pour shot. This involves using laser beams; with microsecond timing delays attached to specialized high speed strobe lights. This is how the professionals who shoot ads for soft drink and alcohol companies do it. This process is complex, takes training and expensive equipment.’’

Jewelry is, technically, unnecessary but the most worn accessory. You don’t need it, you just want it to look more stylish or you wear it because it makes your outfit look better. Try making a feature out of it. Combine it with something edible, gross or not. Create an experience with your fashion, with your style and your food. Make food your accessory. Make it your first love!

Sometimes just capturing a shot by chance can be the best feeling ever! No need for pours and big strobe lights! But preparation is key. Especially when using moving objects that are unpredictable in a shot. Lately, I’ve been observing more and more ads featuring beverage pours. Well, there is definitely a trend toward animated pours. Think Ocean Spray. Print ads, packaging, televisions ads are all using dramatic swirling beverages. I think just capturing it in the moment can feel more natural. Gives you that feeling of thirst!

Its bizarre how you can make a funny little vegetable garden on set and vamp it up with colours, patterns and the high shine accessories. Venturing into this world giving the luminosity and the dynamism that the fruit and vegetables deserve. Think of it this way. By viewing these images, your getting your five a day in eye candy! Show casing the natural things in this world, the angles of beauty the very objects that gain you that visual attention. So next time you get dressed up wherever you may be going, consider this, combine the inanimate objects and paint a limb for your new look. Combine the fruit that’s going to make you stink till kingdom come. Because what do you really want? Do you want to be noticed in the outside world, do you want to try something new? Or maybe you are just trying this style because seeing it in a photography magazine makes it cool! Whatever the reason may be, try out the new look. Do it! Or someone else will.

Think food for the soul. When did the weird and wonderful art of food photography even become mainstream? It may have been lurid into existence in the 1960s with all the new adds, the want for Technicolor shining through in this era. Was it just the need for something new and fresh? Fresh food. Fresh ideas. Fresh styles.

the take over of iphoneography Words by Ellie Minton media platforms such as Instagram it’s hard to ignore the fact that iphoneography is becoming ever more popular. If anything the likes of Instagram encourages iphoneography. It’s a platform which can be accessed on your iPhone from almost anywhere, which allows people to display their photos like an online gallery, it also has a choice of different filters and images can be uploaded within a couple of seconds. Instagram allows you to look at images taken on a smart phone from all over the world and can even give you an insight to your favourite celebrities lives too. So is there really any need to carry out that digital camera of yours that just seems so pointless when you pretty much have the same thing built into your phone?!

Today we live in a world where technology is constantly developing. It is so advanced nowadays that nothing seems to surprise us anymore. At the touch of our finger tips we can do virtually anything. Smartphones for example allow us to watch films, listen to music, visit the shops online, navigate us and so much more! One smartphone that I think a lot of you could agree for being one of the most advance is of course the iPhone i.e the world at your hands! One thing that amazes me about my iPhone is its camera. Not only is the quality great for a ‘camera phone’ but it even betters a lot of compact digital cameras! It allows me to focus in on different objects no matter how close to the lens they are and also take stunning landscape photos using the ‘Panorama’ tool.

there is now a term for the art of taking a photo with your iphone - iphoneography

The cameras which are built into iPhones are so advanced that almost anyone with no previous experience in photography would be able to take a decent photograph. In fact there is now a term for the art of taking a photo using your iPhone - ‘Iphoneography’. But iphoneography goes much further than just taking the photo. There are also so many different apps that you can get on the app store which allow you to edit your photos. In a matter of seconds these type of apps allow you to change the colouring of your photo, add special effects, crop and other re touching.

Back in 2012 Kensington and Chelsea college offered a 5 week short course titled ‘Iphoneography: An introduction to Photography with the iPhone’. The course was run by photographer Richard Gray and was said to have taught students how to create a successful photo with no longer needing the expensive or complex equipment - just a passion for photography and a creative mind! Students who participated in this course needed their own iPhone and also £20 to spend on a number of apps, again asking if there is any need for the more traditional editing software.

So has the art of iphoneography replaced the use of purpose built digital cameras? Well with popular social

So what do you think? Is the art of Iphoneography taking over?

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November 2000, Nick Knight created a collection of 360-degree images using a CT head scanner. Having Spring/Summer 2000 ready-to-wear collections as inspiration, Sweet uses stylist Jane How’s foil and cellophane sweetie wrapper to recreate the collections. ´The gentle naivety of the confectionery packaging is intentionally offset against the latest cutting edge technology, with its Sci-fi connotations.’ , explains Nick Knight. Rotate through a series of unique interactive three-dimensional images charting How’s elaborate interpretations of garments.

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showstudio SHOWstudio is an award winning website, created by Nick Knight that have defined the way in which fashion is presented online. Since its inception in 2000, SHOWstudio has been developing cuttingedge and visionary projects that led to its recognition as the pioneer and leading force of fashion film. In order to explore every angle of fashion through moving image, photography, illustration and written word, SHOWstudio has collaborated with the world’s most acclaimed and recognised artists, always using the latest technology.

2. Power of Witches

With the intention of showing every step in the creation of a fashion image, SHOWstudio collaborated in 2004 with Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons to create an editorial for the Autumn 2004 issue of AnOther Magazine featuring Comme des Garçons’s Witches collection. The objective was to show SHOWstudio viewers the complexity of the process of editing a fashion image and all the skills involved. The viewers had access to the conversations and experiments done by the creative direction team and could also pose questions to all the creative involved, including Rei Kawakubo and Nick Knight.

Since its establishment, SHOWstudio gave people instant access to a world that was previously restricted: the high fashion world. Its innovative projects not only communicate and explore every facet of fashion but they also show people what’s happening behind the scenes of the fashion industry, allowing them to collaborate and be part of it.

3. dress me up, dress me down In June 2005, SHOWSTUDIO invited its audience to act as virtual stylists for a live interactive photoshoot showcasing Autumn/ Winter 2005 fashion trends. Choosing pieces from a wardrobe of garments selected by stylist Jonathan Kaye and taking inspiration in live pornographic video chats, the SHOWstudio audience styled the British model Liberty Ross, giving instructions on the model’s look using a live chartroom. Daniel Brown captured the final looks, creating interactive series, allowing the viwers to add or remove layers of garments.

Words & Imagery by Maria Martins All photographs by Showstudio

Lets have a look at five showstudio projects that changed and innovated the fashion industry.

4. 24HRS To celebrate the introduction of Yves Saint Laurent new line, Edition 24, Stefano Pilati teamed up with SHOWstudio in order to create a 24 hour, 24 part live performance piece plotting a day in a life a Yves Saint Laurent’s woman. In 2007, SHOWstudio asked aspiring and established screenwriters from around the world to submit scripts for the performance inspired by the politically motivated environment of early sixties Paris.

5. pussycat, pussycat

In April 2012, Nick Knight took control of the first ever Instagram photo shoot. Model Cara Delevigne was photographed by Knight’s phone camera, wearing a selection of Autumn/Winter 2012’s collections and posed with a bunny, kitty cat and a chic. The shoot theme was around the internet meme culture and the fever for animal GIFs, featuring the finest of jewellery from Fabergé, Arpels and cartier. Nick Knight took the photos and uploaded them directly on Instagram, alongside analytical fashion tweets from Alexander Fury.

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I like to capture minimalistic subjects, but tomorrow I don’t know what I will discover next. I am in constant transformation.

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Rio De Janeiro, Brazil The photo I chose is from my childhood when everything was so new to me. It was shot by my dad and if you look closely, you can see a fish jumping out of the water at the same time as me jumping from the rock. Digital cameras didn’t exist then, so wheni the film was developed, it was a surprise for us. This shot shows my freedom when I was younger, with no responsibilities. A wonderful childhood.

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Montmarte, France This photo was taken in Montmartre during the Christmas season. The French take the holidays very seriously, so there are always tons of decorations. Part of the culture I really embraced was enjoying simple things, like enjoying warm drinks at a café with friends after a long day. I lived in Montmartre for nearly two years, so the facade of those buildings will always feel like home.

The person you created.. Words by Kiran Nazir Photo by Rebeca Cygnus.

It has become a routine to use our spare time browsing on social media platforms for countless hours, visually collecting images that together become a type of photographic journal that is never kept. Imposing a character we pursue in front of a camera. We cradle our thoughts that bounce on people’s Instagram ‘upload of the day’ choices, or the next person’s selfie fetish; but has the rise of the social media generation become the end of real life relationships and exhausted our communication with the brain?

have grown to become so loyal to; these thoughts, which have been created by the culture, we have been born in. These thoughts have created results that are only short term, and at the same time only time wasting. The person people create does nothing for them.

With thoughts being thrown at you consistently across the cyber world, is it uncontrollable to not adapt to these in some way?

The cybernetic revolt theory has substantially taken its course in some aspects with the world of today. We devour ourselves with the philosophy of others rather than practicing our own growth and finding the answers in the trail of our own thoughts. Would any species be able to consume all the information that is constantly thrown at you on different social networking sites, and be able to not let it directly affect them? The perception of the world has become a real life Sim’s game, you can change yourself in many different ways, clothing, facial features, the way you talk, the way you present yourself, but it will never be real. Being on social media from at young age brainwashes you with these thoughts, these thoughts that people

Its hard to take in what the future holds, and if we become more us, or more them. Creating an image for you that doesn’t exist, with thousands of people doing the same; will we all eventually become the same person? When people create these personas, one would wonder if they’re only trying to runaway from themselves. You get rid of the characteristics that make you, and incorporate these features to become a person that can wants to inhale a certain caliber, only to attract a type of person that compliments your character. Where will it end?

Picture Perfect or the Perfect Picture? Words by biher Tewelde

The bloggers edition: We are wondering why it’s so important for bloggers wanting that perfect picture? Bloggers of today are bursting to post their newest item or even their daily lifestyile feeds on instagram, they know a few tricks to show off what they’re eating in such a presentable way or how to capture every fine detail of what shoes they’re wearing.

Instagram is no doubt my favourite app. But the truth is – as any keen instagrammer knows – it often takes about a dozen tries to get that perfect image. Bloggers are the ones to watch when it comes to the perfect instagram picture. Some of us scroll through instagram and see such a perfectly positioned lunch date photographed from a birds eye view (which is the secret to capturing an image at its best) bloggers have mastered this technique and I for one want to know why and how they think taking photos in such a neat and clear way is so necessary. I was exploring a particular bloggers instagram who is into fashion and your daily life antics; her name is Aimee Song, a fashion blogger from LA. She blogs at www.songofstyle.com – with over 1.9million followers on instagram she must be doing something right that is catching everyone’s attention. She shows us that it is not all about the filters, its about how you take the picture, finding that perfect location and that natural lighting.

This technique is a winner to engage followers to look at your instagram, with today’s technology improving and giving you such high definition cameras on your phone, it most definitely catches the eye.

Now, we think Aimee is a professional when it comes to this. She demonstrates her top tips and handy techniques on her youtube channel, She shows us how she starts her day with a delightful cup of coffee, not your average cup of coffee, it needs some serious arm ‘swag’ involved or some accessories to make the shot a little more interesting and it is a photo to be double tapped. If you can’t fit your late lunch in your shot? get up on that chair and snap away the things we have to do right? If you think you have what it takes to take the perfect coffee or lunch photo, then tag us! Let us see what shoes your prancing around in by hashtagging #ThePerfectThirst We will select our favourire photos to be featured on the official Thirst Magzine Instagram: @ThirstMagazine

All Images From Aimie Song Instagram: @SongsofStyle SongofStyle.com

Photography by Ellie Minton Beauty by Natasha Howden Modelled by Holly Horne at MILK

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The Evolution of the

Supermodel As photographer David Bailey once put it, models are often “dismissed as a tailor’s dummy, a dumb actress or, at best a beautiful child.”

Dorian Leigh, who only stood at 5’5 tall. In this era, the typical supermodel’s look was based on the prim and proper image of a housewife goddess. The original Stepford Wives before Ira Levin introduced the term, but more glamorous a thousand times over. They relived the hourglass silhouette figure of the 1890s, which was brought back by Christian Dior’s post-war ‘New Look’. This was exaggerated with A Line skirts and dresses that came in at the waist. The 1950’s were the beginning of models breathing life into photographs and ditching the static, statuesque poses from the years before. They had major control over creating their own image and even brought their own jewellery, shoes and make-up to shoots.

But in reality, as much as some don’t like to admit it, they play a huge role in photography, being the main focus of a photograph. Not only this but they also have a hand in influencing the western societies views of what is seen as beautiful. Yes that’s right, models, even if unintentionally, influence us on what we see as the ideal beauty in each generation. They are everywhere we look, TV, magazines, the Internet. They are popping up on your favourite blogs and celebrity gossip sites, their envious beauty sandwiched between posts of dogs and Starbucks on your Instagram feed. You just can’t avoid them. And whether you are in awe of their beauty, or you are against everything they represent to men and women around the world, you are still basing it off the idea of supermodels being the ideal woman. I looked back to the late 20th century, when beauty ideals were transitioning rapidly, with each decade having a distinct look that is favoured, and the few ‘it’ girls that did it well.

Moving on to the 1960s, there was a dramatic change. This era was the first time that fashion was aimed at the younger generation; models began to look like girls rather than women. The ‘it’ girls of this era Twiggy, Jean Shrimpton and Peggy Moffitt all donned a significantly younger look to the models of the era before. They were fresh faced, with large eyes accentuated with long upper and lower lashes and a defined eyelid crease. They sported adolescent bodies and long legs, which they proudly showed off with designer Mary Quants introduction of miniskirts. This new look also came with a new attitude, they had a free, rebellious approach to modelling, steering away from acting like a lady, and instead being more expressive, creating shapes and symmetry with their bodies and bold, patterned clothing.

Modelling was first considered as a profession in the mid 1800s in Parisian fashion houses. However it wasn’t until the 1950s when the development of fashion photography saw them being recognised and paid more. Models that shone in this era, were Lisa Fonssagrives, who some consider the worlds first supermodel, Suzy Parker, and one of my favourites, Suzy’s older sister

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The 1970’s brought in a broader range of models, it was also the emergence of the alluring, exotic model. They were darker and mysterious with tanned, slim but toned bodies. Two of my own favourite supermodels from this era are Jerry Hall and Pat Cleveland, who were the muses of the both the late Antonio Lopez and Roy Halston. These two supermodels are great examples of how the beauty of that era was a giant mixing pot of an ounce of the disco trend, with a sprinkle of hippy ideals. They managed to find a balance between a natural face and flowing hair with expressive, unblended eye shadow and blusher. And they somehow executed this without looking like a curious child who got their hands on their mother’s makeup box. I’m still clueless. The intimidating bronzed, leggy model continued into the 1980s. Everything was over the top – hair, makeup & eyebrows. However they ditched the makeup free for all, and in came the trend of the colour brown. Lipsticks were different shades ranging from a dark nude to chocolate, and eye shadow ranged from brown, to dark purple, to metallic. With the 80s obsession of fitness, models were evolving into athletic, Amazonian women, being a lot more toned and ‘hard bodied’. Elle Macpherson, also known as ‘The Body’, was the epitome of this. She was the classic blue eyed, blonde that was sharing the spotlight with the dark haired, brown eyed girls such Cindy Crawford, and the late Gia Carangi. During the 90s there were two main running looks, which were a blunt contrast to each other. The ideal of beauty from the 80s, of the exotic, womanly model continued. But towards the end of the decade this ideal of beauty was transitioning to sleek straight hair, invisible natural makeup and neutral colours. Amazonian supermodels were going head to head with a new thin prepubescent look. They were out, and the Heroine Chic girls, such as Kate Moss & Nadja Auermann, with thin bodies, pale skin and an angular bone structure, who could play both sides of gender were in. The distinct look of beauty in each era made a mark in history. They are constantly being repeated and used as inspiration in the 21st century. A few models in each decade were able to present the specific ideal of beauty from their generation well, ultimately becoming the ‘it’ girls of their era’s. The lucky ones were able to have longevity in their career and transition over in the next decade, while the unlucky ones were left behind. Now we are left to wonder if we will ever have such a rapid evolution in the beauty of supermodels again.

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CAMERA -LESS PHOTOGRAPHY Words by Hope Grant

It's generally a sensible idea not to forget your camera when setting out to take photographs; however recently, this seems to be the common trend... And we dig it.

We have spotted, trending slowly but surely over the Internet are unique young adults putting down the technology and into the hands of camera-less photography... The spirit of photography purely lies in its magical ability to fix shadows on lightsensitive surfaces. Usually, this involves a camera, but not always. Several famous artists work without a camera, producing photographs on paper by forming shadows and controlling light, or by chemically treating the surface of the paper. Recently, this method is becoming a lot more popular, with a much-needed modern twist and a new generation. Camera-less photographs can be made using an assortment of techniques, the most common of which are the photogram, the luminogram and the chemigram. These methods are occasionally used in combination. Many involve an element of chance, which can make the process incredibly rewarding, or the very opposite. I find it refreshing teenagers and young adults are starting to pick up on extraordinary processes like this, and putting down the technology. I am particularly intrigued by camera-less photography and how raw it feels, capturing the beauty of something completely naturally â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but is that enough for the effort required?

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Would it be just as satisfying picking up a camera being able to capture the subject in less than a second? Which goes onto my next question… Why use camera-less photography rather than traditional photography?

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Instagram Chris Luse - @chrisluse Sally Gunnett - @sallyvgu Georgie Lord - @gee_lord

The V&A Museum had an exhibition a few years ago on camera-less photography and Martin Barnes (the senior curator of photographs at the V&A) picked up on something very interesting: “By removing the camera, these artists get closer to the source of what they are interested in: light, time, traces, signs and visions – things which have spiritual and metaphysical rather than simply physical qualities. Laying down the camera frees them from documentation to become, like alchemists, more focussed on transformation.” This inspired answer makes me want to put my camera and phone away, and try something new.

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Photography by Latifah Gordon Styling by Maria Martins Beauty by Zoe Laghi Modelled by Lara at Profile fi Models

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traveller of the moment Nasrin Suleiman

Because we believe that travelling, and exploring new cultures is such an important form of inspiration. Meet our very first traveller Nasrin Suleiman...

Jamba! I was born in Zanzibar and spent most of my childhood there until I moved out to North America for studies. I am graphic designer with a passion for photography, travelling and scuba diving. At the moment, I am currently back in my hometown, and I have been exploring every corner of this island. It has brought me so much joy and I have created so many new, fond memories.

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When walking through the narrow streets of youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll come across various shops, children and adults conversing, unique house structures and local artists. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll never miss an artist while exploring Stone Town. The streets are filled with beautiful paintings. In this photograph Hasan, is painting identical images of giraffes for a client. Every time I pass by this corner I see him creating a brand new piece of work. This is his personal workspace. The local artists here are friendly and talented, I have met several, and each one has an amazing story to share.

This photograph was taken in November at Paje Beach, Zanzibar. On this afternoon it was a low tide, so I decided to explore. While exploring I learnt something new... In Zanzibar men traditionally catch fish while it is the women who harvest shellfish. During low tides, it is very common to see young women searching for oysters, wild clams and cockles. The harvest shellfish is then boiled, dried and taken to the local fish markets to be sold. In the photo you can see two young girls searching for shellfish.

Paje Beach, Zanzibar

As the tide recedes, starfish are often left behind. I came upon this beautiful starfish. Rather than letting it die to dehydration, I picked it up and placed it back into the sea. This is my daily routine while exploring the low tides. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll find a lot of small fish and small corals as well. Other than that is a beautiful creature I decided to post this on Instagram to somehow encourage and inspire others to do the same. I would find some tourist picking up the sea stars and admiring them while taking photographs but they tend to forget to place them back in the water.

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Forodhani Gardens, Zanzibar

I love seafood! The best place in Zanzibar to get local seafood is at Forodhani Gardens. A couple of weeks ago I had gone out to have some BBQ at Forodhani and everyone there is so friendly and loves to socialise. This is one of my favorite places to be during the evenings as it brings out a lot of good vibes.

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The Cutting Room Floor Each image in this feature has a slight mishap. Unfortunately they couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t make the final cut because of this - so we made The Cutting Room Floor as a reason to still show them off!

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Highly Reccomended

We asked our very own featured photographerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s which creatives they are inspired by and following at the moment, and who you should, too.

#1 Ruby James Jasper Trofe Tuck is a fan of Ruby James. She is a Seattle based portrait and fashion photographer. She loves sushi, funk music and lipstick. www.rubyjamesphoto.com

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#2 Rebecca Storm Maya Fuhr recommeneded Rebecca Storm. Rebeccaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work has already developed quite a following. From barbies covered in glitter straddling an eggplant to juicy pickles resting on a bed of vibrant angora, she definitely has a way of making things feel a bit untoward. www.rebecca-storm.com

#3 Blake A. Fox Blake A Fox is a British still life photographer living in California. His work is fun and vibrant which he says is a relfection on his personality. Luca Perrin recommended Blake and you can find his work at... www.blakeafox.tumblr.com

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THIRST is always on the lookout for fresh talent that explore photography. If you think you've got the style and want to see your work in THIRST, be sure to submit your work to us for a chance to be a part of the next issue.

submissions@thirst.com Facebook: /THIRST-magazine Twitter: /magazineTHIRST Instagram :/THIRSTmagazine to keep up with our latests movements, inspirations and the next issue.

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